Originally Posted by Leroy the Suede
having this issue myself on PS5.

My process left the rat pact open -- I didn't make one, but I didn't rule it out. I encountered them early in the Gauntlet of Shar, and killed 3 out of the 4 that try to ambush you with some alchemists fire. I just left after speaking with the lone survivor so I didn't make it worse, but I left the relationship relatively open.

But before I got to Yurgir and even knew I needed to kill the Rat Man Dark Justiciar, I ran into the broken effigy at the feet of the Shar statue.

I had to kill a rat at the top of the cragged rock because it was blocking my path to get to the bottom, and when I went down the craggy rock to get to the skull-salted base, my avatar PC looked around like something shifty was happening, but ultimately no cut-scene triggered. No flood of sleep-rats, nothing. I didn't know about the Yurgir contract yet though, so I figured I just wasn't supposed to know what this area does yet, and moved on -- like maybe it's a story point I just haven't gotten to yet, so I moved on and found Yurgir.

He kept tanking my party (partly because I skipped the grymforge because I couldn't figure out how to trigger the magma and Grym, and thus have no adamantine armor or weapons) so I looked online for some tips and found the rat guy plotline.

I can't get past Yurgir in a fight, so I need to get past him in another way, and that other way isn't triggering. frown I don't want to scale down my difficulty, so now i'm just stuck waiting for an update.

You could beat him naked with a decent wizard and a rogue, go down the ramp and to the right, jump over gap to go up stairs, make all party sneak, surprise attack him, a fighter can make him frightened pretty easily, if surprised you've got 2 rounds and with a party of 4 he should be down before you take on his goons who aren't hard, use confusion or something if want to for fun but there's more than one way to finish them off.